Is the apocolypse coming?

The weather that we've been experiencing in Southern Ontario really has me wondering if the Earth is spiralling off of its axis, and the powers that be are keeping it quiet.

For this time of year we traditionally hit maybe -5C for a moment during early afternoon, and many years feature highs of -15C during this month. Instead we're at 9C down to 11pm at night, and we've had a couple of brief moments of snow the entire year. Plants in my garden are coming up, and this morning I saw some squirrels engaged in some amorous activity, apparently confused into thinking it is spring. The furnace seldom comes on, thwarting the natural gas companies that thought this would be a banner year.

Of course this just continues the odd weather year. The summer was unbelievably dry, and over the entire area most lawns were scorched to mud.

Well, yes, but I think the weather goes wonky now and then all by itself.

Eric Debois
January 30th, 2006 5:44pm

We have snow here in Ottawa...

Phibian
January 30th, 2006 5:45pm

Of course I'm exaggerating for humor, however it has been an absolutely bizarre couple of years weather-wise, and records are being broken left and right. Normally we have a couple of >30C days a year, and this summer past we had something like 45.

Not all of Europe, trollop. Lots of green patches on the pistes last weekend in an area which, although a bit prone to it, I would have ecxpected full coverage. I don't think it has actually snowed for a little while now, it is pretty cold and quite dry.

January 31st, 2006 4:32am

9C in Southern Ontario; about the same temperature we're getting in the morning in Saudi Arabia!

I was in Sri Lanka a fortnight ago and it was cold. Now cold means about 23-24C and having to use two bedsheets instead of one, but it was bizarre, and it seems it'll still be the same next Friday when I'm back for a week. Cold winds from the Himalayas it seems.